US Supreme Court strikes down constitutional right to abortion

the very conservative Supreme Court of USA put an end this Friday to a sentence that for almost half a century guaranteed the right of women Americans to abortionbut had never been accepted by the religious right.

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This decision does not make pregnancy terminations illegal, but instead takes the United States back to where it was before The judgment “Roe v. Wade” from 1973when each state was free to authorize them or not.

In a highly divided country, it is likely that half of the states, especially in the more conservative and religious South and Center, could ban them in the short term.

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“The Constitution makes no reference to abortion and none of its articles implicitly protects this right.”, wrote the judge Samuel Alito, on behalf of the majority. Roe v. Wade “should be overruled.”

“It’s time to return the abortion issue to the elected representatives of the people”, to local parliaments, he wrote.

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A formulation very similar to the draft sentence that had been leaked in early May, causing major demonstrations throughout the country and a wave of indignation on the left.

Since then the situation has been tense in the vicinity of the high court, cordoned off by the security forces to keep the protesters at a distance.

On June 8, a gunman was even arrested near Magistrate Brett Kavanaugh’s home and charged with attempted murder.

Source: Elcomercio

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